Quotes About Time

What happens but once, might as well not have happened at all. If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.

El tiempo de la vida se convirtió para él en un simple obstáculo que hay que superar a velocidades cada vez mayores.

we are longtime outcasts, flying through the emptiness of time in a straight line.

Omul care alearg? îÈ™i simte greutatea, vârsta, este mai conÈ™tient ca oricând de sine È™i de curgerea vieÈ›ii sale.

beauty is a spark which flares up when two ages meet across the distance of time,...beauty is a clean sweep of chronology, a rebellion against time.

Se estudamos, discutimos, analisamos uma realidade, analisamo-la tal como aparece no nosso espírito, na nossa memória. Só conhecemos a realidade no tempo passado. Não a conhecemos tal como é no momento presente, no momento em que ela se passa, em que ela é. Ora o momento presente não se assemelha à sua recordação. A recordação não é a negação do esquecimento. A recordação é uma forma de esquecimento.

Einmal ist keinmal ditor Tomas kendi kendine. Sadece bir kere olan ÅŸey diyor Alman özdeyiÅŸi, hiç olmam?? say?l?r. YaÅŸanacak bir tek hayat?m?z varsa eÄŸer, onu hiç yaÅŸamam?? da olabiliriz , farketmez.

Es mejor gritar y acelerar así la propia muerte? ¿O callar y lograr así una muerte más lenta?

He had spent seven years of life with Tereza, and now he realized that those years were more attractive in retrospect than they were when he was living them.

Lo que ocurre una vez es como si no ocurriera nunca.

Y es que de pronto estaba sin Teresa. Solo la veía de noche, cuando ella volvía del restaurante y él se despertaba ligeramente del primer sueño y luego otra vez por la mañana, cuando era ella la que estaba adormilada y él tenía prisa por llegar al trabajo. Tenía 16 horas para sí mismo y aquel era un ámbito de libertad inesperadamente conquistado. Todo ámbito de libertad significaba para él, desde su temprana juventud, mujeres

Sagen wir also, dass der Gedanke der Ewigen Wiederkehr eine Perspektive bezeichnet, aus der die Dinge uns anders erscheinen, als wir sie kennen: sie erscheinen ohne den mildernden Umstand ihrer Vergänglichkeit. Dieser mildernde Umstand hindert uns nämlich daran, ein Urteil zu fällen. Wie kann man etwas verurteilen, was vergänglich ist? Im Abendrot leuchtet allesim verführerischen Licht der Nostalgie, sogar die Guillotine.

Menschen begegnen sich im Leben, plaudern, diskutieren, streiten miteinander, ohne sich bewusst zu machen, dass sie aus großer Entfernung miteinander sprechen, jeder von einem Beobachtungsposten aus, der in einem anderen Ort in der Zeit steht.

Those who are fascinated by the idea of progress do not suspect that everything moving forward is at the same time bringing the end nearer and that joyous watchwords like forward and farther are the lascivious voice of death urging us to hasten to it.

ÄŒervánky zániku ozaÃ…â"¢ují vÅ¡echno kouzlem nostalgie; i gilotinu.

El tiempo humano no da vueltas en redondo, sino que sigue una trayectoria recta. Ese es el motivo por el cual el hombre no puede ser feliz, porque la felicidad es el deseo de repetir.

Suddenly she felt a need to urinate. You see, she cried. I need to pee. That's proof positive I'm not dead! But they only laughed again. Needing to pee is perfectly normal! they said. You'll go on feeling that kind of thing for a long time yet. Like a person who has an arm cut off and keeps feeling it's there. We may not have a drop of pee left in us, but we keep needing to pee.

Pour échapper à la souffrance, le plus souvent on se réfugie dans l'avenir. Sur la piste du temps, on imagine une ligne au-delà de laquelle la souffrance présente cessera d'exister.

Nous traversons le présent les yeux bandés (...) plus tard seulement , quand est dénoué le bandeau et que nous examinons le passé, nous nous rendons compte de ce que nous avons vécu et nous en comprenons le sens.

Thomas'a yük olmuÅŸtu, her ÅŸeyi çok ciddiye al?yor, her ÅŸeyi bir trajediye çeviriyor, tensel aÅŸk?n hafifliÄŸini ve sevimli s?radanl???n? kavrayam?yordu. HafifliÄŸi öÄŸrenebilmeyi ne kadar isterdi. Onu kendi zaman?na ayk?r? bir kiÅŸi yapan, bu kabuktan çekip ç?karacak biri olmas?n? öyle çok istiyordu ki.

Time isn't the main thing. It's the only thing.

And so, when I began to read the proffered pages, I at one moment lost the train of thought in the text and drowned it in my own feelings. In these seconds of absence and self-oblivion, centuries passed with every read but uncomprehended and unabsorbed line, and when, after a few moments, I came to and re-established contact with the text, I knew that the reader who returns from the open seas of his feelings is no longer the same reader who embarked on that sea only a short while ago.

Sneg je uvek beo, ali je svake godine druga?iji. Tako je i sa ljubavlju. Nije važno koliko je stara, nego da li se menja ili ne. Ako kažeš: moja ljubav je ve? tri godine ista, znaj da ti je ljubav umrla. Ljubav živi samo dok se menja. Kad prestane da se menja, to je kraj.

Love can't always be measured by how long u wait,it's about how well u understand WHY and WHAT you are waiting